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That has been involved in this situation from the administration's perspective, as i said, isn't thinking about what has happened. not only is it do we live in this crazy reality tv culture, right? yes, i think that's part of it, but i also think it was undoubtedly sparked by the fact that it -- it's a discussion about race. >> it is. that was white house press secretary robert gibbs weighing in out how the forced res significance resignation of shirley sherrod escalated. from the white house is chuck todd and also joining us is david gregory. chuck, let me start with you in terms of anything ...

And aapologizing and asking her to come back. everything. just in the news business and the inside talk that we use, the news cycle has become so compressed on this, it's really striking. the bigger point for everyone, the president back in 2008 during the campaign, he talked about race in that famous speech as really deserving a lot of context, that you have to try to understand what people are coming from generationally. you can't just look at this in a very narrow way. and, yet, of course, that's exactly how this was looked at when sherrod was talking about a story of her own transformation...

Depressing as an old newspaper guy somebody came with a tape and nobody said where did it come from, let me see it. >> the problem with the tape is pieces of it can be isolated which is what happened here. it goes to show you how vulnerable we are to all of that. in a way i feel for the media, too. things moving so fast. you get something and react to it and that's a huge problem as we go forward. the media gets the credibility the media gets undermined by this. >> i don't completely agree with that. i don't. i think that -- i mean chuck's point is made and well taken but there is something ab...

Make people act more hastily than they would otherwise. >> david, do you think more fallout, perhaps a resignation, a real one this time? >> i think there could be within the agriculture department and whoever worked for vilsack at usda who initially made this call may be held accountable. don't forget the other big story was the ineptitude that somebody would have made a judgment like this so hastily. those within the media who should be taken to task to that as well. we should be held accountable but so should somebody who made a decisive point of that based on what came to light without loo...

>> chuck todd has this morning's developing headlines live from the white house. also preview of "meet the press" with moderator david gregory. first, we are keeping a close watch on the tropical storm threatening the gulf. let's go to bill karins with the late e-item right now it's threatening south florida and about to move on shore in south florida. miami rain and gusty wind the next half hour or spoke. a quickly moving system and not strong and will not do any destruction or devastation. problem with rain and gusty winds. winds right now 25 miles per hour in ft. lauderdale and not gusting ...